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MariaDB Contributor Agreement (MCA)

These terms apply to your contribution of materials to a product or project
owned or managed by us ('project'), and set out the intellectual property
rights you grant to us (The MariaDB Foundation) in the contributed material. If
this contribution is on behalf of a company, the term 'you' will also mean the
company you identify below. If you agree to be bound by these terms, fill in
the information requested below and provide your signature. Read this agreement
carefully before signing.

The term 'contribution' means any source code, object code, patch, tool,
sample, graphic, specification, manual, documentation, or any other material
posted, committed or submitted by you to a project. Each submission must
explicitly be marked that it's donated under the MCA.

With respect to any worldwide copyrights, or copyright applications and
registrations, in your contribution:

you hereby assign to us joint ownership, and to the extent that such
assignment is or becomes invalid, ineffective or unenforceable, you hereby
grant to us a perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, worldwide, no-charge,
royalty-free, unrestricted license to exercise all rights under those
copyrights. This includes, at our option, the right to sub-license these
same rights to third parties through multiple levels of sub-licensees or
other licensing arrangements; you agree that each of us can do all things
in relation to your contribution as if each of us were the sole owners, and
if one of us makes a derivative work of your contribution, the one who makes
the derivative work (or has it made) will be the sole owner of that
derivative work;

you agree that you will not assert any moral rights in your contribution
against us, our licensees or transferees;

you agree that we may register a copyright in your contribution and exercise
all ownership rights associated with it; and

you agree that neither of us has any duty to consult with, obtain the
consent of, pay or render an accounting to the other for any use or
distribution of your contribution.

With respect to any patents you grant licenses to without payment to any third party,
which would restrict us from using the contributed code as if we would own a
shared copyright to it, you hereby grant to us a perpetual, irrevocable,
non-exclusive, worldwide, no-charge, royalty-free license to: make, have
made, use, sell, offer to sell, import, and otherwise transfer your
contribution in whole or in part, alone or in combination with or included in
any product, work or materials arising out of the project to which your
contribution was submitted, and

at our option, to sub-license these same rights to third parties through multiple
levels of sub-licensees or other licensing arrangements.

Note that you don't give us rights to the patent in any other way than to give us the
right to freely use the contributed code in the above ways.

Except as set out above, you keep all right, title, and interest in your contribution.
The rights that you grant to us under these terms are effective on the date
you first submitted a contribution to us, even if your submission took place
before the date you sign these terms. Any contribution we make available
under any license will also be made available under a suitable FSF (Free
Software Foundation) or OSI (Open Source Initiative) approved license.

With respect to your contribution, you represent that:

it is an original work and that you can legally grant the rights set out in these
terms;

it does not to the best of your knowledge violate any third party's copyrights,
trademarks, patents, or other intellectual property rights; and

you are authorized to sign this contract on behalf of your company (if
identified below).

These terms will be governed by the laws of the Finland. Any choice of law rules will
not apply.